The House of Rothschild: Volume 1: Money's Prophets: 1798-1848

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The House of Rothschild: Volume 1: Money's Prophets: 1798-1848
by Niall Ferguson
from Penguin (Non-Classics)

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• THE PHANTOM ROTHSCHILDS
  What has Ferguson not told about the Rothschilds in his seemingly exhaustive two volume set?
  He all too facilely dismisses Victor Rothschild's being the fifth man in the World War II Soviet spy ring of Blunt, Burgess, et. al. He does not bring up the 1776 Masonic Illuminati order of Adam Weishaupt with alleged connections to Mayer Amschel. And he dosen't discuss the Rothschilds' connection with Freemasonry at the highest level, and their gift to Israel of the Supreme Court building, a New World Order... more info

• The author must be an anti-Semite
  the book had some good pictures, however prof Ferguson not once, but on numerous occasions, claims to refute the story of how Nathan brilliantly deceived the London Stock Exchange players after the battle of Waterloo, earning $40 billion (2007 prices) in one day. A bit jealous I suppose.
  Verdict: Ignore the anti-semitic propaganda and the book is worth a look.

• Great book by Ferguson on monied surrupticious Euro family...
  [Also see: Fritz Springmeier's Bloodlines of the
  Illuminati]. Ferguson, who teaches at a Northea-
  stern University in the US, did yeoman work here
  on at least defusing some of conspiracy talk about
  how fools like Bernard Piper-Collins claim Roths-
  childs alledgedly control ALL things.The Rothschilds
  never ran the bank of England, the gentile Baring
  Bros. did. They are however a very corrupt family.
  Author Ferguson did excellent work here.

• A little too detailed
  I have to start out by saying overall I enjoyed the book but I would only rate it as an average book. It is a little too detailed and didn't keep my interest from one chapter to the next. It would have been better if it left out 150 pages or so. I found myself doing a lot of skiming over what I would say was boring filler in the book. You can learn a lot about the type of business that that Rothschilds were in but not a lot of how they went about doing it.
  After reading this it seems that the... more info

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